league of villains' pokemon teams (5/8): mr. compress | sako atsuhiro
compress was another tough one to pick a team for! but unlike with tomura, it was because i had too many options for him so it was hard narrowing it down to 6. i'd decided early on that he'd have a klefki, and his team would be thief themed. but i didn't realize just how many pokemon could canonically steal in the games - either via moves (thief, covet, pluck) or ability (pickpocket, magician).
i ended up narrowing it down to the ones you see here by using three criteria: they had a thief ability, could learn the move thief, and/or are described as thieves in their pokedex entries. unsurprisingly for a team built around a dark type move, most of his pokemon are dark types too. fennekin and klefki are the exceptions, but i think their magician ability fits compress too much to pass up on them
other pokemon teams: toga, dabi, shigaraki, kurogiri, tba
Mr Compress Fan Approved, cheering you on, girl!! (≧▽≦)
These are great, and I hope to see even more! Been looking at your blog anytime I'm online, always looking forward to your next team post. Never looked to see that the shiny Klefki has a gold/blue colour combo... That's just perfect for him, even just aesthetically.
Bit of a niche reference, but I recall there being a Pokémon trainer in the XY Series with a Klefki. Now, that trainer was actually a host(??) in the Pokémon Beauty Contest(?), which Serena went to. Anyway - I'm pretty sure that trainer had a cane of some sort, and their little Klefki would sit on it. Would be funny for Mr Compress if he substituted his current cane with that type of thing. I feel he'd do that.
Correct me if I'm wrong - but you're approaching this more on the side of this being in a Pokémon game, right? You may be able to gather that I'm more of a sucker for characters being more like in the Pokémon series. The functions and narrative would all be the same; it'd just be those smaller details I like, say the cane as an example :3 I like Trainer-Pokémon dynamics bc they're besties underneath the villain lifestyle.
Update: I just spent about 30 minutes looking for this, because it'd bug me no-end. His name's Monsieur Pierre and he's the host for the Pokemon Showcase in the XY series, with his partner, Klefki.
And I was right about the cane, look!! that's adorable :((
I'll stop yapping now and leave you in peace, haha..
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Ask, and you shall receive. Here's my take on the LoV's team :)
(There are vague spoilers to the last season in some notes.)
I'll try to give general notes on each of them, namely, my reasoning or ideas. Admittedly, certain ones were off by vibes alone, but that's mainly because they may not be characters I am 1000% certain on.
*I won't lie, I am a major Mr Compress fan, but I try to keep relatively decent basis on the others aswell.
**I ended up writing more than initially intended, oh well, the more the merrier.
I'll start with your personal fav, Toga, see if I did her any justice ":)
Beyond the notes in the image, I took on board what you said about Mimikyu and Toga. Honestly, it had passed my mind previously - and, besides, I adore Mimikyu as a Pokémon concept.
Rambling a little bit here, oopsies: Out of context from the Sun/Moon games, it's already fair enough with how overshadowing Pikachu truly is. Still, in the context of the games, you see Pikachu everywhere; the Islanders ADORE Pikachu, and it's not even a local Pokémon. Imagine how that must be for a Pokémon like Mimikyu? Something that causes incomprehensible nightmares just by looking at it, but like many Pokémon, it too just wants to be loved :( So it dressed itself up as what the world adores.
The Persian, on the other hand? I, for one, think Toga could get along quite well with the temperamental cat, certainly if she'd had it since it was a small Meowth. If you squint your eyes, it's similar to her in a way - By appearance, it seems elegant and fit to be a pet, but its harsh, mean mentality can be too much for owners to handle. People would likely label it as a dangerous and aggressive Pokémon, not safe to be around too frequently... Now look at Toga - by appearance, she's a normal girl who dresses in a cute Seifuku uniform, but her personality/characteristics are vastly different to your "avarage" person. Just because of her quirk's nature, she's labelled as a psycho, a monster, something no one should be near.
Now, is that the entire truth? Or is it just people struggling to accept that things can live differently from what is conceived as normal? For a Persian, they're an elegant pokémon with a completely natural characteristic. For Toga, she's still a normal girl underneath; what she feels and thinks may be different, but it's far from unnatural.
Goodness gracious... I really can ramble once the ball gets rolling ^^"" Hope you like reading, I suppose?
I'll hop, skip and jump to the next character! There's still the entirety of the League to cover, haha... I don't believe I'll ramble as much from now, but no promises! ":)
Here's Boss-Man himself, with his team of unnerving buddies.
Further notes for Type: Null: If I remember the lore from the game, back when I first played Pokémon Sun, Type: Null is an entirely man-made Pokémon experiment. It's similar to Mewtwo, made through experiments rather than natural evolution - people trying to make the ultimate Pokémon, creating something biological, unnatural yet entirely functional. Type: Null, I believe, was seen as yet another aggressive Pokémon due to its unnatural creation, making it powerful but uncontrollable until the headpiece was made.
Sounds vaguely like Tomura, if you squint? Right? I'm not going mad here, am I? His existence is natural, sure, but it sure as heck is anything but stable or controlable. AFO thought he had Tomura under his thumb, but ultimately, he could never truly suffocate Tomura entirely, no matter how he stole his body, his mind, pulling him under within his own soul, per se.
That headpiece Type: Null wears. I have this vague vision of it breaking around the same time Tomura starts cracking from his own shell. It's breaking those chains holding them back, something holding their true potential back - the moment where the family's hands along Tomura's body loosen, becoming no more than an accessory to him. For Type: Null, it'd be breaking free of that restraint, becoming the unleashed Silvally it'd always been beneath it all - now in control of its own body and power, stable enough to survive without that restraint.
Aaand I've rambled again. Someone take this keyboard away from me, gee-wiz, man.
Here, next person! The walking torch of death, the burnt man, a substantial number of people adore, Dabi.
I believe a few people have paired Dabi up with Toxtricity, and frankly, I see the vision. That pokémon does look pretty dang similar to Dabi, appearance-wise, at least. I mean, look at that smug expression and that purple & blue colour-scheme going on.
Would Dabi use this pokémon himself? I'm still debating that myself. It's an electric-type Pokémon for the most part, not sure if that really lines up all that well with Dabi. Not saying "Oh, fire wielder has to always be with other fire wielding pokémon",, no, not really. However, I'm not entirely sure if the pokémon - by its nature and its quirks - it'd be something Dabi's all that interested in.
I'll leave that as an open-ended choice. By appearance and vibes, it could work, but Dabi personally? I'm not as sure.
The Alolan Marowak? That's also an interesting pick, appearance-wise and lore-wise. However, rather than the literal burning hatred Dabi has keeping him alive, it appears Alolan Marowak are more in the mournful, remembering deceased ones, side of things. Not so much raging little fireball, more a cursed torch made of its mother's bone. Not kidding. Marowak and Cubone are just such adorable pokémon "":)
Maybe Dabi would pick the little fire-dancer, respect what it's got going on.
Moving onwards, though, we've got the dual-man himself. Twice! Now, with him, I really was scratching my head a fair bit...
The note explains itself well enough. I wish I could give a slightly deeper explanation for these picks, but Twice really isn't one of my strong suits. I can understand his character relatively well, but I haven't really come across many pokémon that really stick out for him.
The idea of these pokémon having the move "Double Team", or having a multiplying ability, or even being an amalgamation of multiple Pokémon, feels like a solid idea. Frankly, the mental image as I'm writing this, of Twice throwing out that Alolan Dugtrio, is making me chuckle. Or, heck, give the guy an Alolan Exeggutor, I love that palm tree pokémon.
HECK! Give this guy a Wishiwashi and have him clone his little buddy an army of clones, creating a behemoth of a Wishiwashi School Form. Brilliant.
Minor tangent aside, here's the next one of the bunch. A personal favourite, who would have ever guessed *cough cough*
Do I have a different Google Slides thing with lore and more already made from previously? No, no, totally not, I am very fair and even with all the League... Truly, no obvious doting on this magician whatsoever.
That aside, even if he's the totally-best-character-ever (kidding), I'm not shallow enough to give him waaay OP and out of character pokémon for him. Neither am I giving him a pokémon like Beheeyem or Mr Mime, not because I don't like them... Ok, it's because I don't like them- BUTBUTWAIT- That's personal preference, and they feel like obvious choices. I can see how people would choose Mr Mime, heck! Even the name matches! But in my eyes, I can't imagine him together with a mime Pokémon...
I'm not saying throw Mr. Mime to the gutter, not at all, I'd even say it'd be a better match for someone like Gentle Criminal. If I remember right, Mr Mime can make those invisible walls? I think that was an actual battle move... Anyway- That type of ability matches well with Gentle Criminal's elasticity. BUT that's a whole other man entirely. Yeesh, I need to keep myself on track.
Back to Magic-man over here, I picked out Thievul, Meowscarada and Lieopard for relatively simple reasons.
Thievul - It's in the name, really. Theif fox pokemon, and a sneaky one at that. Marking its potential targets for later? Mr Compress would do something like that - he's said himself he doesn't steal from whomever, it's not his style - If ever he steals, it's from targets he knows himself shouldn't have such money in the first place. Say, corrupt heroes and such figures.
Meowscarada - If show-off were a pokémon, this would be on the list of candidates. Seeing how this pokémon uses missdirections and optical illusions to trick its targets is so much like Mr Compress' own antics. He and his Meowscarada would be a double act even the best heroes would get a headache from by the end, either from the smug comments or the smokes and mirror tactics.
Liepard - It starts off even as a Purrlion being a cunning little thief, enough so that many trainers have an instinctive distrust of these fiends. Don't trust the elegant face; this feline could rob you blind with a silky paw. In the pokedex: Liepards, by nature, are sneaky devils who creep through the night. What would a "Phantom Theif"(Description from the MHA: Ultra Analysis book) like Mr Compress be, if not stealthy?
Could you say it makes him look like a cat-person? Yeah, and that's funny to me. He comes across as a cat-owner rather than a dog-owner. Pokémon doesn't help the case by making the sneakier or sassier pokémon felines (or of similar ilk, since Thievul is a fox).
Taking a breath, we'll have a look at the last bunch I didn't have many notes for beyond what's already written. First up is Spinner!
The Chargabug was a sort of house-pet and portable power-source for Spinner. It'd eventually evolve into a Vikavolt later on when he joined the league.
Can I elaborate on the Galarian Stunfisk?... Noo... I just feel Spinner might've found the ankle-biter by accident, caught it, and thought it could be helpful in his team.
Next in line is the League's glorified portal gun, Kurogiri.
This just made me a little sad when I had the thought "These could all have been pokémon specifically picked out for him, not anything he really thought about himself" :(
However, I think he'd still take really good care of his team. Polish Chandelure's glass, and give Corviknight a regular stretch of its wings.
And last in line, not for any particular reason besides me being unorganised- Magne!
The Magnetone's name is: "Azuma" = Should mean "East" in Japanese.
And the newest Magnemite is "Nishi" = Should mean "West" in Japanese.
Why east and west? Rather than South and North, like the functions of her quirk? Because shush, I thought I was being clever - Her pokémon being additions to her strengths. She covers the South and North with her magnetism, while Magnetone and Magnemite handle magnetic pulls to the West and East. Like I said, I thought I was being clever here.
Well, with all this said and done, this can now live in my account for who-knows-how-long. I had fun making this, and fun is the main thing that matters out of all of this! :)
iiiif you, dear Toga admirer, managed to read all the way here, I wish you good luck on the MHA x Pokemon ideas. Remember to have fun with it! If someone tries to bog you down, pay them no mind; it's your ideas, and no one can take that away from you. There are those of us around who love what you're brewing up!!
(Please forgive my rambling in advance! Hah ^ ^"")
Frankly, I love all the different masks because it's a fun detail for a character to have a variety in their design. If I had to pick just one, I personally like this one the most:
Maybe one of the simpler designs, but it's seen in one of my favourite Arcs in the series. Besides, in certain manga panels, it's pretty darn cute in an odd way.
(Bonus for cosplay: It leaves more room for eyeholes without the proportions looking off. His normal mask is iconic, but I'd say more difficult to pull off, if you want to be able to see.)
A runner-up would be the cross mask he wore in the MHA: Heroe's Rising. Two reasons: "Look ma', he made it into a movie, woaw!!" and 2: I found it to be one of the better masks to make an actual Cosplay mask for - It leaves more room for "hiding" where you can see out of, and it's pretty forgiving if you're not A+ on your painting skills.
Lookie here, I have a mask I can see out of!! Woah!! shocker. You'd be surprised how little I could see out of my first mask. Frankly, I'm surprised I managed a local Con once upon a time...
Anywho - It's the mask Mr Compress wore in the 2nd MHA movie: Heroes Rising. 10/10 film too btw, totally not just because it had Mr Magician in it for less than a minute, no no no, of course not.
"They're not dead, they're just sleeping!!" - Says any desperate fan when their favourite is in a horrendous medical crisis.
P.S. Don't say it looks like Dabi is jorking it. I know. I've already been told twice. It was an accident, I swear.
One of my friends wanted an Aizwa one. I am well aware of this man's relationship with sleeping, specifically that sleeping bag. But my friend wanted more of the overworked man.
I know this isn't reblogging stuff... And I know I almost definitely never posted the first art on here... BUUTTTTT it's the one year anniversary of them so I'm verryrvveryveryeryveryvery happy and would like to share my remake of the first art ever made of them!! [This will probably be buried under reblogs but who cares I love them]
Here is a random mix of screenshots and doodles featuring our favourite magic man: Mr Compress 😌✨ (There's a lot... Feel free to run off with anything from here, if you want, I'm no police officer.)
Doodles of varying quality:
All from memory, might I add. This smug guy is engraved in my brain
This has more than two seconds of thought put into it... Maybe five seconds?
Jk
It was an idea I had; Making a drawing that looks like one of my oc's drew it. In this case, this was my MHA oc drawing their found family. (P.S Those are all nicknames given by my oc)
uhhhh, miscellaneous? It's still him, at the least?
This might go into territory not everyone likes, maybe? Idk-
I Spent too much time on Tiktok and now it feels like everyone has a problem with everything 😭
Little bit of me taking the piss out of Gacha "variants"... Youtube is filled with them. If you know, you know. Finding canon designs is a blessing in Gacha, I swear, people will be making the characters so far from canon that it's mad.
I used Gacha... club? The one people tend to use for Gacha reaction vids (as an example). Specifically to prove my point that it is possible to make the characters relatively close to their canon appearance without the use of Gacha life 2.
Admittedly, I did have a little bit of fun making the "Gacha fan" variant, but I see it as a character making a highly accessorised cosplay of Mr Compress.
I am not against headcanons, not at all! Each to their own, I suppose.
(For context; The girl there is an oc I have- She is a huge fangirl, but she's from a whole different story, literally. Compress is just confused as to who this random girl is)
Headcanon younger Mr Compress & Canon current Mr Compress. His younger self is telling him, politely, to stfu... I don't remember the context behind this.
I just love seeing this funny fella in casual Yukata's and kimonos.
One of my Ocs, Hejina Abako, about to whoop a certain magicians fancy butt. Dabi is just there, unphased. (Abako is a pro hero... And maybe an ex-partner of Atsuhiro 👀)
Side note: Hejina Abako's quirk is "Morphia" = Shapeshifter. Hence the various animalistic features.
MagicShow (Mr Compress x Gentle Criminal), anyone? 😞
Don't know how or when I started shipping this, but they're just funny guys, ok?
They're the same age too, just an FYI. That just fuels my idea of them being in the same school growing up.
They'd break up somewhere down the line, mainly bc I love La Brava x Gentle Criminal, low-key happy they got married in the end.
Abako x Compress is a wavering relationship I have on the side. Abako is pissed off with Compress, to grossly water it down. After all, Abako is a hero and Compress had kept his Villain persona hidden from him for so long. (8 years, give or take.)
Oc x Canon and Canon x Canon? Scandalous-
Shoutout to my Roblox avatars. Both are Mr. Compres in one way or another
The one on the right is... Well, I never really landed on an exact AU variant, but he's just more ✨ and mysterious. Maybe watched a lot of mafia/gangster films instead of theatre growing up. They're both equally dramatic though, I'll be real w you.
It's an AU variant I use with my friend, he's literally just a glorified babysitter for her oc 😭
P.s I gave him a bad knee, instead of a prosthetic, hence the cane. It's (Rheumatoid) arthritis, sorry G... At least he's still got two hands for magic, eh? Win-win... no?
(This came from a headcanon someone posted where Mr. Compress uses his cane as a mobility aid + Me throwing my own problems onto him; dysfunctional knees... They are cracking like glowsticks every time I crouch or bend my knees.)
This post really just turned into me info-dumping at the most random things, all which involve Mr. Compress in various ways. Special interests, amiright? They get everywhere...
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